Assume a group of people, aware of the possibility of conflicts; and then someone proposes, as a solution to this eternal human problem, that he (someone) be made the ultimate arbiter in any such case of conflict, including those conflicts in which he is involved. I am confident that he will be considered either a joker or mentally unstable and yet this is precisely what all statists propose.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (via laliberty). In my opinion no one alive can match Hoppe in his understanding and explanation of the damage done to people by the “state” in all its forms.